Multiple choice

Life cycle of which of the following pathogenic protozoans is/are digenetic?

  1. Entamoeba histolytica

  2. Plasmodium vivax

  3. Trypanosam cruzi

Select the correct answer using codes given below:

  1. 1 only

  2. Both 1 and 2

  3. Both 1 and 3

  4. Both 2 and 3

  5. All of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Plasmodium vivax (malaria parasite) completes its asexual part of life cycle in people and the sexual part in the female Anopheles mosquito (Digenetic life cycle). Trypanosam cruzi possesses a digenetic life cycle involving a hematophagous insect vector and a mammalian host.

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